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Old Aug 2, 2011 | 10:39 am
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Originally Posted by Himeno
I booked a DONE3 through the AA RTW desk yesterday out of ICN for pricing/issuing in Canada.

I had planned on ICN-NRT-DFW-ANC-DFW-ATL-ORD-SFO-JFK-AMM-MAD-LHR-DXB-LHR-SIN-HND-GMP, but they couldn't get a seat on the JFK-AMM, and I had to re-plan. Now going through FCO instead of AMM.
This increased the taxes a bit (checked tax quote via online tool).
So it should be KRW 8,529,300+taxes converted to CND, which should be about $8.1k.

I had to call back to make fix some mistakes, they mentioned it had been priced around $13.4k but had to be sent back for repricing with the changes. That can't be right can it?
It sounds like they were giving it the Canadian or US pricing (see bold above) rather than the Korean. I've had this happen before - some newbies at the RTW desk that don't fully understand the "Canadian exception" business; or perhaps they didn't hear you when you emphasized (you did, didn't you?) that this was to be priced for ticketing ex-ICN. The key is to get have them price it for collection at ICN, get the PNR, then arrange for ticketing (using said PNR) ex-Canada.

Or, have you tried contacting AA's GSA in Korea? http://www.aa.com/i18n/aboutUs/where...kets/korea.jsp That also usually works in cases of overseas ticketing fulfillment.

I fear this problem with the AA RTW desk mishandling foreign-origin RTWs is going to get worse, with the closure of AA's Dublin tariff desk. They are/were the pros.

Let us know how it washes out.
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